Nomi Prins ushers us into the intimate world of exclusive clubs, vacation spots, & Ivy League universities that binds presidents & financiers. She unravels the multi-generational blood, intermarriage, & protégé relationships that have confined national influence to a privileged cluster of people. This unprecedented history of American power illuminates how financiers have retained their authoritative position through history, swaying presidents regardless of party affiliation. It explores the alarming global repercussions of a system lacking barriers between public office & private power. Prins leaves us with an ominous choice: either we break the alliances of the power elite, or they will break us.